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POLYGON: CONCAVE and

CONVEX

OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the
students should be able to:
Define what is a polygon;
Differentiate
concave
to
convex
polygon; and
Name a polygon according to sides.

POLYGON
A polygon is a closed plane figure
with 3 or more sides (all straight
lines, no curves).

- at least one vertex


points inward towards
the center of the
polygon

- all vertices
point
outward

CONCAVE POLYGON

CONVEX POLYGON

NAMING POLYGON
Number of Sides

Greek Words

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

TRI
TETRA
PENTA
HEXA
HEPTA
OCTA
NONA/ENNEA
DECA
UNDECA
DODECA

NAMING POLYGON
Number of Sides

Greek Words

13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
1
2

TRI+DECA
TETRA+DECA
PENTA+DECA

n-gon

HEXA+DECA
HEPTA+DECA
OCTA+DECA
ENNEA+DECA
ICOSA
HENA
DI

Identify if the polygon is concave or


convex, then name it.
4

1
2

THANK YOU
^__^

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